Mr. Morrice
European Economic Integration Department)
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I take it that I must return to you the copy of "Journal officiel des Communautes europeennes" dated 18th December, 1968, containing the text of a number of regulations recently adopted by the community in their approach to a common commercial policy. I had seen reference to three such regulations in a recent issue of the Hong Kong Association Bulletin. May I keep the information memorandum from Brussels on the same subject which you also sent?
2. I may be quite on the wrong lines because I have no expertise in this matter, but it seems to me that these regulations may well have a bearing on the question of the Commission's proposals on UNCTAD preferences which are of course of great importance to Hong Kong. I should therefore be grateful if you could arrange for earlier than usual translation. I understood you to say that in the ordinary way this might take some time.
3. I am copying this minute to Miss Stoddart in Trade Policy. Her Department will no doubt know whether I am right to think that the Commission's approach to formulating its proposals on UNCTAD preferences (about which Hannay's letter to Goldsmith in the Board of Trade was written on 19th December, 1968) can be better understood in the light of these regulations. Perhaps, for example, the reference to "series of graduated steps" on which Mr. Kemmis in the Board of Trade
In alt'd Holder, commented, can be seen as a reference to the
gradual establishment of a common administrative procedure for quantitative quotas" with which regulation 2043/68 deals?
(H. H. Stewart) Hong Kong Department
16 January, 1968
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